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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Sept. 21. 1955.
Not A Success But Not A Failure
It did not work the wonders which were expected of it. Neither was it a dismal failure.
Did the IBM enrollment system work? It's time for an appraisal.
This year's enrollment could have been handled more efficiently with the old "hand" system. But with the larger enrollments expected in the future the hand system would not have worked.
It is a good thing the system was tried this year. When the University begins enrolling the 12,000 plus students expected in a few years, it will be too late to try a new system.
True, there were a lot of "goofs" this year—most of them caused by the fact that no one connected with the new process, faculty, administration, or students knew exactly what he was doing.
Some persons found the enrollment easier. Students did not have to fill out duplicate registration blanks, and in the enrollment pen, they had only to write their student number on a card and move on. Faculty members in the pen had only to hand out the card.
For the registrar's office, it was and is a different matter—they're in work up to their ears.
As a result of all this there have been plenty of "goofs." The registrar has about a hundred cards on his desk which represent students whose names have not been called in any class.
They were not prepared for the triple absorption of the work load which occurred. The preenrollment schools which the staff attended were necessary, but could not substitute for experience. They're learning.
These groups—students and faculty—handled their tasks well. James K. Hitt, registrar, has nothing but praise for the way students adapted to the new situation. But it was an easier process for the students.
And the staff which runs the machines—while thoroughly schooled in the use of those machines was not prepared to enroll 8,000 students. They have been working night and day.
And there is the fabulous case of Gerald L. IWS6N, journalism junior, who is waiting patiently for the administration to find out his name is Gerald L. Thomas.
So for this year, the IBM system is certainly not worth the time or effort expended.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
But in the long run, the system will be a more efficient and faster way to take care of enrollment. When the school gets 10,000 students on this Hill, there would be no way to enroll them except by the IBM system. The long-range goal makes this year's effort worthwhile.
Adlai Stevenson says he will make a definite announcement about his presidential intentions in November.
A Note To Adlai
Mr. Stevenson's friends are no doubt saying Adlai wants to be very sure his party desires to support him again.
In other words, Mr. Stevenson will be waiting between now and November for a "draft."
The pro-Adlai Louisville Courier-Journal thinks this is a major mistake. Says The Courier-Journal:
"Stevenson has no need to wait until November to make his position clear. He is above the cruder considerations of expediency. He knows that the risk of defeat is great next year, but that it must be taken."
For our part, we agree with the Courier-Journal. Adlai cannot wait for, as the Detroit Free Press says, "elevation by acclamation." American politics doesn't operate that way.
Texas University Texan
Gee, They're Funny!
Gee Whiz, these college kids are hilarious. Boy,
what they won't think of next.
Those pink soap bubbles in the chancellor's fountain were really funny. Yessir, that highly original college stunt was so funny it belonged in a class with the yearly painting of the Jimmy Green and the first two times someone put soap in the Chi Omega fountain.
1 Yessir, those kind of stunts are in a class all by themselves.
“Can’t we make it a night to remember? From now on it's bed at nine, special food, no dieting—football practice begins ya know.”
Bv JON
Oh Well...
For this I paid a buck and a half:
--different spelling) class of named homo sapiens which shouldn't oughta get them kind of harcus.
Put I did.
There comes a time in every man's life when he must choose between the barber's chair and a dog license. I, being somewhat naive about such things, chose the former. Wanting to be a part of campus life (although I don't for the life of me know why), I respectfully (always address a barber respectfully) he's got the razor) requested that the hairless hair-razer (a study of the situation shows that 98.32668 percent of all barbers are bald) give me what is currently called a "flat top."
. . .
A "flat top" is a haircut in which the follicles of fur stand erect but are only about an eighth of an inch unwags and downwavs.
Unfortunately, I am of the class referred to by Haddon as lissotrichy, but not entirely in fact. I am of the class *wettingly* (class of hair-)
But I ode.
However, in defense of my "bald look" (on which Dior does not have a patent), I say that I am not entirely to blame. Like many human beings of my sex are prone to do, I drifted into the arms of Morpheus (that's just a cultured way of saying I conked out ... and goodness, we must be cultured ... pear) and when I was swept back into the world of reality by a nick of the razor against my ear lobe I came to the sudden realization that the rascal with the shears had absconded with my tuft.
Tips Department; I will soon release to the student body of this University facts and figures providing that your collective dad wasted a lot of loot when he bought you that new Hupmobile last summer. . no place to put it.
"How could you?" I sputtered.
"Easy," he cackled and lopped off another lock.
I asked no more questions.
Oh well. . .
TONING DOWN TEENERS
MERIDEN, Corn. (UP)
Starting this fall, high school boys and girls here will not be allowed to wear dungarees, sandresses, shakes, beach wear, shorts and cowboy boots. Shirts must be tucked inside trousers and extreme haircuts will not be tolerated. School Supt. Malcolm B. Rogers said the object is to eliminate "some of the bizarre dress habits" of the high school set.
Sorry,NoKelly StickToShelley
I was in line with one of my cousins and an aunt waiting for the UDK paper boy to arrive yesterday. We are old Kansas settlers and have learned to stand behind each other. Aunt Great Lakes, though, is young. She it was who saw this here faculty member.
We were standing reading my previous letter to the paper, proud like, when he came up and got a copy. He opened it up, scowled, cried out: "What no Pogo!" and then actually trumped the paper into the burnt-up grass. My cousin took down his name. He is easily dignified.
Incidentally, the fellow who hurt his feet on the Coke machine recovered. I mean his use of them, not his nickel.
Your friend and my friend Archibald Dome
BEDFORD, IN. (UP) — Officials of the Taylor County Fair think they may be starting a new trend by dropping gate admission fees at this year's fair for the first time in 80 years. They hope grand-stand admissions will finance the fair.
SOMETHING DROPS!
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Fast-Dying Texts A Purse Drain
"Thank you, that will be $22.50."
With these cheerful words the student is told what his textbooks will cost for the semester. The total for all students will not be the same, but each will pay anywhere from three to seven dol- for each book.
To be sure, it is one of those inconveniences a person must bear under high-cost living. With the price of newsprint and labor being what it is, nothing can be done about it.
However, something is drastically wrong when after only one semester a textbook is out of use and the student is offered about 75 cents to a $1.50 for the book.
Last summer, for example, a new psychology book, costing $5.25 was put into use. After eight weeks the psychology department decided to change texts and the selling price for the eight-week-old text at the end of the summer term was a dynamic 75 cents.
Professors too often select a text—only to find out after a semester's use that it hasn't lived up to expectations. They then select another text. That's fine and dandy except for what it does to the students' purses!
All of this was hashed out this summer but never a murmer, pro or con, was heard from the administration. Why can't an arrangement be made whereby departments are required to announce a semester in advance of proposed text changes? Then for that final semester the texts should be offered at reduced prices.
Granted, someone has to lose a little money when a text is changed, but does it have to be a one-way deal all the time for the student? Maybe it would be a good idea if professors who switch books every term made up the difference from their own pockets.
Changes would be few.
It has been disclosed that nearly $200,000 of Kansas state funds have been encumbered to purchase reflectorized license plates for 1957 on the authority of Walter A. Rugan, state highway director. That it was done without the knowledge or approval of the commission, raises some serious questions in Topeka.
Some, but not all, of the facts are clear. Legislators turned down the proposal and did not authorize it by statute. They believed the cost to be too high. The plates have been ordered. The money has not been spent. Statutes long have provided that license plate materials shall be purchased subject to the inspection and approval of the commission. They do not specify the director.
The only real issue in the present controversy is whether there was any impropriety in the manner in which the reflectorized materials were ordered. Director Rugan is a man of excellent reputation. If he made a mistake in judgment, or on wrong legal advice, that is one thing. If pressures were brought to handle the matter irregularly, that is another.
State Controversy Challenges Gov. Hall
An administration that won election on a campaign "to throw the rascals out" must be highly scrupulous to avoid any suspicion of improper acts or it will lose public confidence. The public is entitled to a complete report on all the facts.
The commission, as a matter of policy, has full authority to purchase license plates that glow at night if it feels they are worth the cost. But the Legislature's refusal to sanction the purchase should put the commission on notice that such decision demands the fullest consideration.
—Kansas City Star
With the resignation of Senior Peron, speculation is that the United States government will recognize the new government only if it can show that it is in complete control. It may be that the United States will end up with two or three embassies in that country. It seems that every one down there thinks he is in complete control.
Certainly the six-member commission will consider the order at its meeting next week and approve or reject the purchase.
Gov. Hall asks for drouth aid for 48 northwest Kansas counties—but be quiet about it, governor. They've got an awful lot of pride out that way.